d-alston
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I couldn't get any further than 21 minutes into this movie.
This is ineptly written and directed, bleak, dull and pretentious.
I don't know who Joe Hollow is, but this seems to have emerged from the first-year students of a film school, in which the cast was plundered from some weekly rep theatre.
You may have noticed that some high ratings have been garnered for this effort.
If you can be bothered to count them you will arrive at the number of people who are family members and friends of those involved in this movie and who felt the need to vote on this site in support of this project.
This is ineptly written and directed, bleak, dull and pretentious.
I don't know who Joe Hollow is, but this seems to have emerged from the first-year students of a film school, in which the cast was plundered from some weekly rep theatre.
You may have noticed that some high ratings have been garnered for this effort.
If you can be bothered to count them you will arrive at the number of people who are family members and friends of those involved in this movie and who felt the need to vote on this site in support of this project.
Brooding, atmospheric, sombre movie which is ultimately unsatisfying.
The message (racism = bad) is pulverizingly hammered home and is chiefly embodied in the superb performance of Guy Pearce, playing the depraved and irredeemable Reynolds, whose corruption reigns supreme over a small town (in which, we are told more than once, police uniforms mean nothing).
The supernatural elements (nature's answer to the vampire mythology possibly, but who knows?) are cryptic and understated and it's anyone's guess what some of the imagery is meant to convey.
The resolution is probably the most unsatisfying part of this slow-moving film.
Watch it for Guy Pearce's committed performance, even if you raise your eyes in exasperation at the overblown plight of the poor Chinese people who came in search of The American Dream only to find American Psycho instead.
The message (racism = bad) is pulverizingly hammered home and is chiefly embodied in the superb performance of Guy Pearce, playing the depraved and irredeemable Reynolds, whose corruption reigns supreme over a small town (in which, we are told more than once, police uniforms mean nothing).
The supernatural elements (nature's answer to the vampire mythology possibly, but who knows?) are cryptic and understated and it's anyone's guess what some of the imagery is meant to convey.
The resolution is probably the most unsatisfying part of this slow-moving film.
Watch it for Guy Pearce's committed performance, even if you raise your eyes in exasperation at the overblown plight of the poor Chinese people who came in search of The American Dream only to find American Psycho instead.
